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Melody (& Pitch) : Mad T Shirts

The document discusses the elements of melody and pitch in music. It defines melody as the tune or part of the music that is often sung, consisting of high and low notes played in sequence. Pitch refers to how high or low a note sounds. The document then examines the melody of the song "Lean on Me" in the verse, chorus, and middle 8 section, analyzing aspects like ascending and descending phrases, intervals, scales, and pitch range.

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Melody (& Pitch) : Mad T Shirts

The document discusses the elements of melody and pitch in music. It defines melody as the tune or part of the music that is often sung, consisting of high and low notes played in sequence. Pitch refers to how high or low a note sounds. The document then examines the melody of the song "Lean on Me" in the verse, chorus, and middle 8 section, analyzing aspects like ascending and descending phrases, intervals, scales, and pitch range.

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Melody

(& Pitch)

MAD T SHIRTS
Melody

1. Sit in your ensembles for Lean on Me

2. In your groups decide on a definition for the term


Melody

• Melody is the tune. 
• It's the part of the music that you often find yourself
singing along with. Pitch is how high or low a note
sounds.
•  A melody is made up of high and low pitched notes
played one after the other. 
• Catchy melodies often repeat the same series of notes
over and over.
To familiarise yourself with
all the elements of music
Learning
Objectives
To learn about how pitch
and melodic devices are
used in writing music
The Elements of Music are the ingredients that make up all types of music. We use these
terms to describe what is happening in music. You should be familiar with these terms
from KS3 and it will be really important for you to learn them for GCSE :

MA D T S H I R T
Articulation 
Melody  Dynamics 
(How is it
(pitch=high or low) (loud & soft)
played/sung)

Texture Harmony/Tonality
Structure
(how many parts/what (major/minor)
(how is it built)
is each part doing) (chords)

Instrumentation Rhythm Tempo


(timbre/sonority/ (length of notes) (fast/slow)
technology)
Melody

• Ascending/descending

• High/Low pitch

• Narrow/wide pitch range

• Moving in steps (conjunct) and leaps (disjunct)

• Intervals – Tone/semitone - 2nd/ major 3rd/ perfect 4th/perfect 5th/ major 6th/ major 7th

• Scales (scalic) - major/minor/pentatonic/chromatic

• Arpeggio/broken chord
• Phrase ascends
then descends then
ascends again
Lean on me - Verse
• Stepwise (conjunct)
movement

• Scalic – goes up and down


in a scale

• Small pitch range – (4th =


4 notes

• Repetition of phrase A
with contrasting ending

• Different interval (minor


3rd) at the end of the
• Phrase descends then
rises (opposite to the
verse)
Lean on me - Chorus
• All scalic 

• Bigger pitch range (6th)

• Mostly stepwise with


some big intervals (4th,
5th, 6th

• Repetition of phrase
A with contrasting
ending – same as verse 
Compare and contrast the
melody in the middle 8
Lean on me - Middle 8 section with the melody
in the verse and chorus
using the key melody
vocabulary.

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